Women and Men at War : A Gender Perspective on World War II and its Aftermath in Central and Eastern Europe

• Autore: Leiserowitz Ruth
• Pubblicazione: , : Zeilenwert GmbH, , 2014; ©2014
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (354 pages)
• Disciplina: 940.53
• Soggetto topico: World War, 1939-1945; Gender identity
• Altri autori: RögerMaren
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Impressum -- Table of Contents -- Foreword of the Editors -- Introduction: Gender and World War II in Central and Eastern Europe -- I GENDER RULES: THE POWER OF IDEOLOGICALLY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICALLY GENDERED INTERPRETIVE MODELS -- Homelands on the Move: Gender, Space and Dislocation in the Nazi Resettlement of German Minorities from Eastern and Southeastern Europe -- The Discourse of Power through Gender in World War II Latvia -- Women as Victims and Perpetrators in World War II: The Case of Hungary -- II GENDER ROLES AND GENDERED IDENTITIES IN ARMIES -- Honor and Masculinity in the Polish Officer Corps during World War II in Captivity. Escapes and Courts of Honor: The Case of Oflag VII-A Murnau -- Telling Stories. Gender Relationships and Masculinity in the Red Army 1941-45 -- Sexual Contact between German Occupiers and Polish Occupied in World War II Poland -- Love, Comradeship, and Power - German Auxiliaries and Gender Relations in the Occupied Territories -- Change in Gender Roles: The Participation of Bulgarian Women in World War II -- III GENDER ROLES AND GENDERED IDENTITIES IN PARTISAN MOVEMENTS -- In the Lithuanian Woods. Jewish and Lithuanian Female Partisans -- Gendered Resistance: Women Partisans in Yugoslavia (1941-45) -- Anatomy of the Unsaid: Along the Taboo Lines of Female Participation in the Ukrainian Nationalistic Underground -- IV POST-WAR: (DIS-)CONTINUITIES AND MEMORIES -- Russian Women about the War: A Gender Analysis of Ego-Documents -- Latvian Women After World War II -- Making Up for the Losses of War: Reproduction Politics in Post-War Poland -- Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Index of Persons.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Second World War fundamentally changed the societies of Central and Eastern Europe. Social bonds and structures were destroyed by brutal occupation policies and extensive deportations. These had long-term consequences for the societies as a whole, but also for individuals within the social fabric of their lives. Not least of all, gender roles and gender relations were influenced by it. This everyday and gender historical dimension of the Second World War in Central and Eastern Europe has often come up short in the research whereby an integrated view of the effects in the post-war period was obscured. This volume represents a collection of contributions about different countries in this region. This was an area scarred by having been overpowered and seized multiple times and by the brutal occupations of German and Soviet aggressors. And then there were the inner-societal tensions and conflicts that followed, discharging themselves along ideological and ethnic lines. The central questions are (1) about the ideological promptings and the everyday transformation of gender roles in the occupation and defense armies as well as in the partisan groups; (2) about the power of gendered interpretive models in official propaganda and the individual self-understanding of those who were occupiers and those being occupied; and (3) the corresponding effects of the war on the post-war period. Gender-specific bodily experiences also play an important role.
• Altri titoli varianti: Women and Men at War : A Gender Perspective on World War II and its Aftermath in Central and Eastern Europe
• Titolo autorizzato: Women and Men at War
• ISBN: 3-944870-22-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911015847103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II